Re: [IAEP] Long-term development strategy (Was: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119)

2010-04-13 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 09:31:25PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 23:54 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Bernie, I'm not sure the point of this point at this point in time. To copy and paste part of the response I did to the other thread on fedora-olpc for others benefit.

Re: [IAEP] Long-term development strategy (Was: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119)

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 23:54 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Bernie, I'm not sure the point of this point at this point in time. To copy and paste part of the response I did to the other thread on fedora-olpc for others

Re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread Ismael Luceno
El Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:40:27 +0800 Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com escribió: Which of the 2 scenarios is constructionist? How could you justify to not include source code? That's evil. As evil as suggesting the use of a platform that children would be unable to use if they wished to.

Re: using XO for Internet Math Tutoring

2010-04-13 Thread Stanley Sokolow
Hi, Martin, Thanks for your reply. When you said to just install Flash, your brevity actually was helpful. It made me think that maybe getting FlashPlayer to run correctly on Sugar is a non-issue by now. I plan to retry the Flash and browser downloads from the wiki. They seem to have been

re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread Carlos Nazareno
How could you justify to not include source code? That's evil. As evil as suggesting the use of a platform that children would be unable to use if they wished to. -- I'm really sorry for cluttering the list again, but I had to immediately reply to this. Some developers need to put food on

Re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread Ismael Luceno
El Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:06:04 +0800 Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com escribió: Some developers need to put food on the table and feed themselves and their family. Do you think that's evil? As long as they distribute their software as free software, it's a good thing. Distributing non-free

Re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 13.04.2010, at 11:06, Carlos Nazareno wrote: I'm sorry if I offended you guys At this point you're not even offensive anymore, just pitiable. We're not demanding anyone is giving away anything for free. We simply choose to do that ourselves, and we want to enable others to do the same, so

Re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread Richard Dobson
On 13/04/2010 10:42, Ismael Luceno wrote: El Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:06:04 +0800 Carlos Nazarenoobject...@gmail.com escribió: Some developers need to put food on the table and feed themselves and their family. Do you think that's evil? As long as they distribute their software as free

Please stop it (was: Re: errata)

2010-04-13 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:38:40AM +0800, Carlos Nazareno wrote: I know a lot of us would rather date the less attractive girl over the dumb blonde, but are you guys saying the smart blonde is less hawt? (go Natalie Portman!) OK, you're definitely starting to offend people. Please stop it.

Re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread Carlos Nazareno
We're not demanding anyone is giving away anything for free. We simply choose to do that ourselves, and we want to enable others to do the same, so we make available everything someone else might need to build on our work. But nobody is forcing you to do as we do, so don't whine. I'm fine

Re: using XO for Internet Math Tutoring

2010-04-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Stanley Sokolow stanleysoko...@gmail.com wrote: maybe getting FlashPlayer to run correctly on Sugar is a non-issue by now I think it Just Works, but if there are technical issues we will be interested in hearing about them and exploring solutions. Let us know

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Daniel Drake
On 12 April 2010 19:13, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: That's because of the exim. Do a 'yum install ssmtp' then a 'yum remove exim' and most of that problem goes away. the auto depsolving for '/usr/bin/sendmail' get exim by default because its the shortest name and comes first.

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 12 April 2010 19:13, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: That's because of the exim. Do a 'yum install ssmtp' then a 'yum remove exim' and most of that problem goes away. the auto depsolving for '/usr/bin/sendmail'

Re: open source vs. constructionist learning

2010-04-13 Thread John Watlington
Carlos, This was posted to the wrong list. Please post questions about constructivist learning to IEAP i...@lists.sugarlabs.org where people who study education can provide a real answer. wad On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Carlos Nazareno wrote: Questions: A) Syntax vs. Algorithms

Flash activities?

2010-04-13 Thread Esteban Arias
Hi, exist some study for adobe FLASH on sugar 0.82 and XO 1.0 ? requirements? considerations to develop activities? thanks Esteban. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flash activities?

2010-04-13 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi Esteban Take a look at the eatboom activity, it's an sketch to develop activities based on .swf files, thanks to the work of tomeu and wadeb. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4225 i use it to make http://people.sugarlabs.org/rafael/CuerpoHumano-1.xo hth. Rafael Ortiz

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flash activities?

2010-04-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:59, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero dir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Esteban Take a look at the eatboom activity, it's an sketch to develop activities based on .swf files, thanks to  the work of tomeu and wadeb. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4225 i

Hello!...

2010-04-13 Thread sonubi seun
I just got 2 know about the X-Oand its activities, and i'm rily interested in creating an activity that will help these young kids to get more creative and innovativeI just wanna ask..where do i start from?...learn python or what?...i'm a bit conversant with php, java, C++ and visual

Re: FLASH on sugar 0.82 and XO 1.0

2010-04-13 Thread Carlos Nazareno
exist some study for adobe FLASH on sugar 0.82 and XO 1.0 ? requirements? considerations to develop activities? Hola Esteban! Check out the Wiki entry we started here on Flash Edu-game dev for the XO: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Flash_Gamedev We'll be updating the wiki soon. -Naz --

Re: Hello!...

2010-04-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:32 PM, sonubi seun checkmii4r...@yahoo.com wrote: I just got 2 know about the X-Oand its activities, and i'm rily interested in creating an activity that will help these young kids to get more creative and innovativeI just wanna ask..where do i start from?...learn

libertas_tf on XO-1

2010-04-13 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! Did anyone get libertas_tf on XO-1 working with recent kernels (from git branch olpc-2.6.31-updates)? For me it refuses to work at all in managed and ibss modes. In monitor mode, it causes sshd and ip link set wlan1 up resp. ifconfig wlan1 up to hang when executing one of the latter.

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_1.5 http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/os119 Compressed image size: 678.36mb (+0.01mb since build 118) Description of changes in this build: * kernel: allow negotiation of 5/10/15/30fps

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I updated my XO-1.5s to 119 yesterday and was surprised to see that the screen rotation button still doesn't seem to work. Looking through the mailing-lists I didn't find any discussion about this topic which kinda surprised me. The openchrome driver hasn't previously had

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread James Cameron
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9350 (xrandr screen rotation support) is still being worked. We did try with software frame buffer rotation enabled, but it did not perform well. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Devel mailing list

Re: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119

2010-04-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:27 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9350 (xrandr screen rotation support) is still being worked. We did try with software frame buffer rotation enabled, but it did not perform well. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/

dev.laptop.org, build.laptop.org, content-type changed

2010-04-13 Thread James Cameron
I've changed the Content-Type returned by dev.laptop.org and build.laptop.org and other virtual hosts for a few file types: application/octet-stream for .zd .zsp .lzma .toc .iso and .rom text/plain for .md5 I'm not aware of any likely side-effects, but let me know if you find any. -- James

[Server-devel] Moodle langpack and configuration trick

2010-04-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi list, Working iwth the La Rioja team, I rolled a new moodle-xs RPM that can pick $CFG overrides from files dropped in /etc/moodle/conf.d/ . Right now we're using it here to install a langpack and set it as default. But it can naturally be used for other advanced configs without messing with